Badger goes banging
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:32 pm
Well, we were up scraping the ice off the badgermobile at dark o'clock this morning and on the road to the range long afore many oomans were about. By 0800 the range was signed for and the targets were up at the 300m point, giving us plenty of time for the long wait until 09:00 when we are allowed to begin shooting. It's an army range you see, and so we have to play by army rules. If it were run by us badgers we wouldn't have to turn up and take possession until 08:45, but army ranges don't run on common sense. Sign at 8, fire at 9.
At 0900 the butts flag was lowered and the first volley rang out, stirring the sand a little and warming up the barrels. Most of the oomans present had Remington clones in AICS stocks, with a fair scattering of DSRs and a few custom bits of gucci kit. V bulls began to appear all over the shop...
Being a pernickety sort of mustelid, we'd opted to take two older rifles, a 1908 Carl Gustaf Long Rifle in 6.5x55 Swedish and an AIA Enfield jungle carbine in 7.62x39. The Enfield was topped off with a nice Russian 8x42 POSP scope ballistically matched to the 7.62x39 round and the Carl Gustaf we shoot over its entirely adequate open sights. Both rifles had been stripped from their stocks for drying and cleaning last time they were used (it bucketed down) and so needed re-zeroing. The Carl Gustaf was quickly back on tune, grouping into the 3 ring from a prone unsupported position without a sling - a result quite acceptable for a badger over open sights. It's better than minute of farmer and that's all that matters.
The AIA Enfield took a little longer to work up - again, prone unsupported at 300 m. The sights started out quite a way off and given that the dials are labelled in Cyrillic script it can be quite a test of our tiny brain to walk the holes to where we need them. However, it was a nice warm morning, the larks were singing and the sun was on our back so all in all quite an enjoyabubble morning.
How did your shoots go today oomans? Release many canned bangs back into the wild ?
At 0900 the butts flag was lowered and the first volley rang out, stirring the sand a little and warming up the barrels. Most of the oomans present had Remington clones in AICS stocks, with a fair scattering of DSRs and a few custom bits of gucci kit. V bulls began to appear all over the shop...
Being a pernickety sort of mustelid, we'd opted to take two older rifles, a 1908 Carl Gustaf Long Rifle in 6.5x55 Swedish and an AIA Enfield jungle carbine in 7.62x39. The Enfield was topped off with a nice Russian 8x42 POSP scope ballistically matched to the 7.62x39 round and the Carl Gustaf we shoot over its entirely adequate open sights. Both rifles had been stripped from their stocks for drying and cleaning last time they were used (it bucketed down) and so needed re-zeroing. The Carl Gustaf was quickly back on tune, grouping into the 3 ring from a prone unsupported position without a sling - a result quite acceptable for a badger over open sights. It's better than minute of farmer and that's all that matters.
The AIA Enfield took a little longer to work up - again, prone unsupported at 300 m. The sights started out quite a way off and given that the dials are labelled in Cyrillic script it can be quite a test of our tiny brain to walk the holes to where we need them. However, it was a nice warm morning, the larks were singing and the sun was on our back so all in all quite an enjoyabubble morning.
How did your shoots go today oomans? Release many canned bangs back into the wild ?
I'm especially curious to see how the POSP is mounted to your AIA.